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Jonathan Hammer-Slay (Halloween '26 edition)👻🎃🧛🦇🔪 @jhammersley.bsky.social · 44m

Still have a green beard today even after 3 or 4 shampoos & rinses, from all the dye and paint we used to make it green

Jonathan Hammer-Slay (Halloween '26 edition)👻🎃🧛🦇🔪 @jhammersley.bsky.social · 46m

The Oompa loompas, from our Halloween party last night. It was like 85° in Illinois yesterday afternoon so Corgi Willy Wonka didn't get to make an appearance in her costume (but will on actual Halloween night) #Halloween

My wife and I dressed as oompa loompas standing on our back deck, Kind of doing a little oompa loompa dance

My wife and I dressed as oompa loompas standing on our back deck,

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Jonathan Hammer-Slay (Halloween '26 edition)👻🎃🧛🦇🔪 @jhammersley.bsky.social · 21h

I totally hear this line in the Nic Cage "we're more like treasure - protectors" voice: I'm not really an . . . AI friendly actor

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Jonathan Hammer-Slay (Halloween '26 edition)👻🎃🧛🦇🔪 @jhammersley.bsky.social · 22h

Good to know. Movie was recommended to me also, and keeps coming up on streaming as something I'd like. So wondered how badly I needed to watch the show first

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Jonathan Hammer-Slay (Halloween '26 edition)👻🎃🧛🦇🔪 @jhammersley.bsky.social · 22h

They all started pretty closed but apparently cheap plastic fangs are much stronger than donut dough

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Jonathan Hammer-Slay (Halloween '26 edition)👻🎃🧛🦇🔪 @jhammersley.bsky.social · 22h

I take so many pictures like this, usually with beers, that my Google photos app frequently sends me collages of beer pics!

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Jonathan Hammer-Slay (Halloween '26 edition)👻🎃🧛🦇🔪 @jhammersley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Found the one of the best haunted houses I've ever been to last night just outside Peoria IL. Rated the best haunted attraction in IL at one time, #2 a few years ago. Took us over an hour to get through the haunted Manor, various haunted woods, and a wild industrial factory. Well worth a 90min drive

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Jonathan Hammer-Slay (Halloween '26 edition)👻🎃🧛🦇🔪 @jhammersley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Better than I thought but not worth $250. Might want a count Choc hat, though

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Jonathan Hammer-Slay (Halloween '26 edition)👻🎃🧛🦇🔪 @jhammersley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This looks awesome. We found one of the best haunted houses I've ever been to outside Peoria IL, too. My daughter loved it but sadly too intense for our son so sadly he couldn't go (under age 13 not really allowed). Wish there had been a section for younger kids. will post pics tomorrow

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Jonathan Hammer-Slay (Halloween '26 edition)👻🎃🧛🦇🔪 @jhammersley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I can't even find this movie. You watching on DVD? Or like YouTube

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Jonathan Hammer-Slay (Halloween '26 edition)👻🎃🧛🦇🔪 @jhammersley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Every year: thanks for completing your annual state employee (ethics, cyber security, whatever) training. Congratulations, here's your certificate! 5 days later: according to our records, you have yet to complete this mandatory training . . .,

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Will Ferrell's Iconic "Say Whaaat?!" Moment

Alt: Will Ferrell's Iconic "Say Whaaat?!" Moment

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Jonathan Hammer-Slay (Halloween '26 edition)👻🎃🧛🦇🔪 @jhammersley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Every pro-AI supposedly deep thought headline I see now is just like

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Jonathan Hammer-Slay (Halloween '26 edition)👻🎃🧛🦇🔪 @jhammersley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Somehow I never even knew about the existence of this movie! I have whole chunks of years just missing from my awareness though at certain points in life (eg. Early grad school)

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Jonathan Hammer-Slay (Halloween '26 edition)👻🎃🧛🦇🔪 @jhammersley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I've listened to a couple podcasts recently where the hosts or guests used it a lot too

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jodyvanb @jodyvanb.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Floyd #Muppets #Ghostbusters

Watercolour of Floyd Pepper from (The Muppets’ Electric Mayhem Band) dressed as a Ghostbuster, blasting an unseen ghost. Floyd’s mouth is wide open, his orange feathery moustache is floaty and wild.

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Jonathan Hammer-Slay (Halloween '26 edition)👻🎃🧛🦇🔪 @jhammersley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Someone has surely studied the frequency that this happens? Has to be fairly common to be denied tenure, then go on to a distinguished or very successful career elsewhere

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Jonathan Hammer-Slay (Halloween '26 edition)👻🎃🧛🦇🔪 @jhammersley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

One of my academic pet peeves too (the number of times I've sent off an email, been surprised to get a quick reply only to see it's an auto response 😦). My other one that's worse imo is getting a real response but it's a link to a 3 minute voice recording I can't listen to in public

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Jonathan Hammer-Slay (Halloween '26 edition)👻🎃🧛🦇🔪 @jhammersley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Both our WiFi and our cell service were out for like 2 hours tonight so my kids didn't know what to do with themselves (well my son did, he read a physical book) and had no way to text us or make announcements from the other room requesting beverages & snacks

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Will Ferrell's Iconic Meatloaf Moment

Alt: Will Ferrell's Iconic mom! The Meatloaf Moment In wedding Crashers

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Jonathan Hammer-Slay (Halloween '26 edition)👻🎃🧛🦇🔪 @jhammersley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

That's amazing! though I'm nervous enough about my daughter getting her driver's license in a few months, so I won't be mentioning balloon permits to her too

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Jonathan Hammer-Slay (Halloween '26 edition)👻🎃🧛🦇🔪 @jhammersley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is way cool! We have a miniature version of this on our campus every fall but sadly never have gotten to fly in one, myself

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Jonathan Hammer-Slay (Halloween '26 edition)👻🎃🧛🦇🔪 @jhammersley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Or "yeah right, nice try." (I guess they know they're a candidate on a short list already?) But I'm surprised they get people to answer, unless they go through official channels like university offices. Even so I'd be skeptical if my dept office manager told me the Nobel committee was on the phone.

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Jonathan Hammer-Slay (Halloween '26 edition)👻🎃🧛🦇🔪 @jhammersley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Me either but I get and applaud it. Honestly kind of tired of having equipment or my path blocked by folks posing in mirrors at the gym

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Sven Golly @benbreitenfeld.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

#Halloween #Alien #xenomorph

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Jonathan Hammer-Slay (Halloween '26 edition)👻🎃🧛🦇🔪 @jhammersley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

ha, my campus in Western Illinois was a lot like this in 2020/2021 as a lot of students were gone and many flocks of turkeys were just roaming around and sometimes just chilling

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 08/10/2026

do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life

flyer on a pole reading

I CAN CHOP ANYTHING
WOOD TIRE STRONG WOOD
(with action photos)
$400 REWARD for bringing me something I CANNOT CHOP
chopping is how I keep my mind thinking good Thoughts
(contact info9

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Jonathan Hammer-Slay (Halloween '26 edition)👻🎃🧛🦇🔪 @jhammersley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I do something like this almost every day in miniature form (except pieces of cheese wrapped up in ham or turkey)

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Tom Danger @afunghoul.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Okay, I was going to wait until closer to Halloween to post these candids; this is THE most *extra* Jason costume I’ve ever seen. Just look at these photos…it wasn’t enough to put on a stage blood covered flannel and goalie mask, no sir, this guy went *all out* with the mutant Jason face underneath

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Jonathan Hammer-Slay (Halloween '26 edition)👻🎃🧛🦇🔪 @jhammersley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Thank you! Looks like I have to do two separate purchases perhaps?

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Jonathan Hammer-Slay (Halloween '26 edition)👻🎃🧛🦇🔪 @jhammersley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Oh, okay thank you! I didn't see the little membership tab. Donated a little while back but didn't know how to get the zines. I'll do both

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Jonathan Hammer-Slay (Halloween '26 edition)👻🎃🧛🦇🔪 @jhammersley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My state senator actually showed up at my house, and I almost yelled at him because I had just been visited by a couple of solar panel and software salesmen (though still kind of a waste to use canvassing time & resources on us)

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Jonathan Hammer-Slay (Halloween '26 edition)👻🎃🧛🦇🔪 @jhammersley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Mine is how my name used to be mispronounced too but I've grown to kinda like it

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Chris Schweizer @ NYCC (H27) @schweizercomics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Gourd Folks! 1/ Undertaker (fairy tale) and little'un (acorn squash)

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Jonathan Hammer-Slay (Halloween '26 edition)👻🎃🧛🦇🔪 @jhammersley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My kids definitely do this whenever I buy bags of marshmallows to make treats (Not to save calories, just because they are a quick and sweet treat that can eat a bunch of)

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Jonathan Hammer-Slay (Halloween '26 edition)👻🎃🧛🦇🔪 @jhammersley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Our new spider web display is going to be awesome, once I get some more lights and we set up the fog machine and jumping/ screaming animatronic spider underneath it

A large fake spider web hanging from our back patio, several big artificial spiders attached to it

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